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Customer brought in a 1934 thousand dollar bill. After ten years in banking finally got to see one in person. (i.imgur.com)
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/u/Bman2U

That's worth considerably more than $1,000 to a collector

/u/gokism

Who writes a blue 9 in pen on a $1000 bill? Did he have 9 or more of them at one time?

/u/olfitz

I wish they still printed them. It's such a hassle carrying around a wad of $100s.

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[–] mightyfoolish 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Weird they printed these out when the dollar was worth more. Now the dollar is worth less bigger bills make more sense than ever.

[–] linearchaos 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They definitely would, thank goodness we're heading toward a cashless society :P

[–] mightyfoolish 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Cashless as in credit cards or poor...

[–] Santcuff 5 points 1 year ago

Yes

[–] pixelbounds 3 points 1 year ago

Debit, credit cards, phone wallets most likely

[–] linearchaos 3 points 1 year ago

Any which way but loose.

[–] SrElsewhere 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about graft and payola? How would politicians get paid in a cashless society?

https://thebullelephant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Freezer-cash.jpg

[–] linearchaos 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

'real estate gifts'

[–] SrElsewhere 2 points 1 year ago

Gift cards?

[–] fiestapinguino 14 points 1 year ago

I would never give this up. That person must not be in the best financial situation

[–] BigPapaE 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A quick Google search says:

"Most 1934 series and 1934A series $1,000 notes are worth around $2,125 in very fine condition"

[–] LemmyFeed 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd say it's fair condition so best I can do is $50

[–] styx 2 points 1 year ago

$75, and last offer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Totally would have bought it just to have it and asked forgiveness later. I've got a few other older bills that are fun to go back and look at the old styles -- although they're in significantly lower denominations.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I remember seeing one in the early 80s as a kid when my mom cashed SSDI check. It was just over a thousand dollars and the cashier had one on hand. If that wasn't the entire budget for our family of five for the month it would've been cool to hang on to.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That's over $22000 in today's money https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl

They seem to sell for around $2000-5000 on eBay, so not a solid investment.

[–] tallwookie 3 points 1 year ago

wow nice!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Very cool...didn't know they even existed.